Day 103

Chick tract!

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haha! i’ll leave the same exact comment that I left when you saw one in Pennsylvania on your walk across the USA:

Jeremy says:
April 10, 2010 at 12:20 am
Jack Chick is a true American oddity. He’s perhaps the most published cartoonist/comic stripper in history (more than Charles Schulz with Peanuts), he’s apparently some sort of billionaire, has a publishing factory near los angeles with like 50 employees, and he’s never been seen or photographed. There’s only grainy photos of him from high school yearbooks.

I bought a whole pack of this filth at a “Christian” bookstore years ago. The clerk said, “don’t you just love these?”

Well, no. But they are fascinating. One of them demonizes Jehovah’s Witnesses, and once when a Witness at my door attacked my church, Presbyterian, for considering the issue of gays, I thought of running into the house to get it for him, in exchange for his pamphlets.

Going to the Pennsylvania link for these and seeing the photos on the right side made me nostalgic for your/our trip across US. It was truly awesome. And I enjoy learning about NY every day. Is it possible when you’re titling the photos that you could put a small q, bx, b, m, or s at end so we would know where you were?

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I'm walking every street in New York City.

This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!

Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!